Las Vegas station (New Mexico)

Las Vegas is an Amtrak train station at Railroad Avenue and Lincoln Street in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Built in 1899, the two-story brick station building was designed in the Spanish Mission style and features a red tile roof, ornate metal brackets and a curving parapet. The station was renovated in 2000, when approximately $1.2 million was secured from federal, state and private sources. It reopened as the Las Vegas Intermodal Facility and now houses a passenger waiting room and the city's Visitor Center.[2]

"Las Vegas station" redirects here. For the station in Nevada, see Las Vegas station (Nevada).
Las Vegas, NM
The Hotel Castañeda and Las Vegas Amtrak Station in recent times.
LocationRailroad Avenue and Lincoln Street
Las Vegas, NM 87701
Coordinates35.5935°N 105.2126°W / 35.5935; -105.2126
Line(s)BNSF Railway Raton / Glorieta Subdivisons
Platforms1 side platform
Tracks2
Other information
Station codeLSV
History
Opened1899
Traffic
Passengers (2018)4,630[1]  3.19%
Services
Preceding station Amtrak Following station
Lamy
toward Los Angeles
 Southwest Chief Raton
toward Chicago
Former services
Preceding station Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Following station
Romero
toward Los Angeles
 Main Line Watrous
toward Chicago

The station is near the Hotel Castañeda, a former hotel built by Fred Harvey for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.[3] The hotel's architects were Frederick Roehrig and A. Reinsch. The hotel is the oldest Mission Revival Style building in the state of New Mexico, opening for business on January 1, 1899.[4] Though the hotel has been closed since 1948, it now (2014) has a new owner. Developer Allan Affeldt and partners bought the historic hotel in Spring 2014. Affeldt had already bought, refurbished and opened the historic Harvey House hotel La Posada in Winslow, Arizona.[5]

The station and former hotel are contributing properties to the Railroad Avenue Historic District.

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See also

References
  1. "Amtrak Fact Sheet, FY2018, State of New Mexico" (PDF). Amtrak. June 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
  2. "Las Vegas Station". Amtrak's Great American Stations. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
  3. La Castaneda Hotel – Las Vegas Citizens' Committee for Historic Preservation Archived 2011-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Richard Melzer (2008). Fred Harvey Houses of the Southwest. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 37–40. Retrieved 2011-08-26.
  5. http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/real-estate/2014/04/21/northern-arizona-hotelier-buys-historic-hotel-las-vegas-nm/7978975/
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